"Unbelievable": Sol Phenduka Expresses Shock Over Severe Infrastructure Failure in DRC
- Sol Phenduka shared a video of severely damaged and muddy roads in the Democratic Republic of Congo on X
- The original footage, posted by Africa Today Media Group, criticised DRC leadership over neglected road infrastructure
- Mzansi followers flooded Sol's post with strong opinions on African governance and continental development
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Podcast and Chill co-host Sol Phenduka left his followers talking after he reposted a clip on X showing scenes of impassable mud roads in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The footage, originally shared by Africa Today Media Group, was enough to leave the radio personality at a loss for words; his caption read simply:
"Unbelievable."
What the DRC footage showed
The video depicted a stretch of dirt highway buried under thick mud and rain runoff, with heavy commercial trucks and transport vehicles either tipped over or completely swallowed by sludge along a steep embankment. Africa Today Media Group used the footage to call out DRC political leadership, arguing that ordinary citizens are unable to access food, medicine, and basic daily necessities because of years of neglected road infrastructure in the country.
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Mzansi reacts to Sol's post
Sol Phenduka's repost sparked a wide-ranging conversation about road infrastructure and governance across the continent. Here is what some followers had to say:
@InbornMzansi wrote:
"If you watch @itchybootstrav9 on YouTube, her North Africa Season... you will see how terrible the roads are in most African countries... I'm talking national roads are mud roads..."
@DeevhahD observed:
"We might be shocked at the state of their country's decorations, but it didn't just happen overnight. Same way the US and South Africans are allowing things or normalising things lately, we are heading there; just look around you: how many other things that were working and are no."
@PercyNtobeko noted:
"It's really the richest country in Africa; they have land submarines."
@tsh94390 added:
"This could easily be us if it wasn't for bo ngamla."
@kim_Rogue_Un pointed out:
"What drives me crazy is that it wouldn't even be that expensive to make all roads drivable"
@SimangalisoMch1 asked:
"What do South Africans gain from open borders when the rest of Africa is in such a terrible state @EFFSouthAfrica."
@cutting_torch shared a personal account:
"I worked here. 🤣🤣 And this is real. Sometimes we sleep for two days cs a truck broke down on this road and blocked it; until that broken truck move no body move. 🤣 That's Congo for you."
@Afr1kan_Child remarked:
"According to Malema, we must have these people governing the entire continent of Africa."
@HMPGroupZN offered context:
"That's true about Congo, Sol. If you have an automatic vehicle there, forget you'll come back with it; that terrain is for manual vehicles: bad roads or no roads at all, no maintenance, nothing cause most are in rebel-controlled areas, so the government don't care."
@SizweMugwaba raised a flag on the footage's origins:
"This was in 2010 during criminal @kabila and @PaulKagame time."
Congo fetched its citizens from SA
The Embassy of the Republic of Congo in Pretoria has officially urged its citizens to remain calm and strictly comply with local laws as it prepares for urgent voluntary repatriation flights.
The initiative follows what the embassy described as a situation of vulnerability affecting many Congolese nationals living in South Africa.
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